Articles by Politics of Color

BY: ELS DE GRAAUW & SHANNON GLEESON (equal co-authors) In the United States, the federal government has sole power to enact immigration laws, but it does little to invest in immigrant integration. This task instead tends to fall on state and local governments, as well as philanthropic funders [...]

Thank you for your message regarding President Trump’s callous and misguided decision to rescind the executive order establishing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. I strongly oppose President Trump’s decision, and I will fight tirelessly to ensure that the Dream Act is [...]

By ANTHONY RENDON, Speaker of the California State Assembly “Political psychology researchers have long found that when leaders cast outsiders as different and threatening, that can strengthen insiders’ sense of identity and group cohesion. But that can leave minorities at risk of [...]

BY ERIC GONZALEZ JUENKE AND PARU SHAH The Obama era will come to a close next year. His presidency has provided the backdrop to some of the most important innovations in racial and ethnic politics research. In the last decade, with the rise and pervasiveness of online campaign websites, political [...]

By Linda Alvarez, Ivy A. Melgar Cargile, Natasha Altema McNeely, Lisa Pringle, Patricia Posey, Andrea Silva, and Carrie Skulley On November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. Many, including members of the Republican party were shocked that a man openly [...]

BY JUSTINE G.M. ROSS Nearly forty years ago, an anti-establishment presidential candidate with a Tinseltown resume and the campaign phrase “Let’s Make America Great Again” rose to national prominence. Initially dismissed by his party, opponents, and the media as an uninformed, inexperienced, [...]

BY: DANIEL GALVIN President Obama has devoted most of his energies over the last eight years to building a policy legacy, and he has made many important gains. Unfortunately, it will now be relatively easy for Trump and the Republican Congress to undo most of it fairly quickly. They will now [...]

Jane Junn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California In the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, one piece of data from voter exit polls has been particularly surprising for Clinton supporters: 53% of white women voted for Trump [...]

The Politics of Color asked scholars to comment on the 1st 2016 Presidential Debate as part of its relaunch. POC is the official blog for the flagship journal of the REP Section of APSA – Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Moving forward, we invite scholars, graduate students, and [...]

AUTHORS: Rita Kaur Dhamoon (University of Victoria) ABSTRACT: In settler societies like Canada, United States, and Australia, the bourgeoning discourse that frames colonial violence against Indigenous people as genocide has been controversial, specifically because there is much debate about the [...]

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